Catholic Church

By Bishop James Conley, Southern Nebraska Register - Our Catholic faith certainly and clearly teaches that the taking of innocent life, from conception until natural death is objectively and intrinsically evil, that is, it may never be done, no matter the motive or circumstances… this past weekend, we heard the words spoken to the prophet Jeremiah by the Lord himself, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you” (Jer 1:5). We are made in the image and likeness of God; God himself came to earth and became like us in all things but sin. We have been given such a high level of dignity—dignity that the culture of death is trying to tear away.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - This is the second in a series of five posts on the angels and their role in our lives. The content of these posts comes from a series I have been teaching at the Institute of Catholic Culture on the mission of the angels. Angels are ministering spirits mystically present and active throughout creation, in the events of Scripture, in the liturgy, and in our lives. The fundamental source for these reflections is Jean Cardinal Danielou’s book The Angels and Their Mission: According to the Fathers of the Church.

Staff Reporter, Catholic Herald - The bishop was asked about the divisions within the Church. He replied that “there seem to be some voices within the Church, some at a very high level, that are calling into question some fundamental truths about the human person”. Bishop Conley, who chairs the US bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, said he was especially referring to truths about marriage and sexuality.

By Dr. Maike Hickson, LifeSiteNews - Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan expressed his support for the campaign to Stop homosexual networks in the Catholic Church and compared its spirit with words of St. Catherine of Siena and St. Bridget of Sweden, both of whom have strongly admonished the clergy of their time to live chaste and holy lives... Speaking of “the abominable situation of clerical sexual abuses of minors, seminarians, subordinate and vulnerable adults of an unprecedented extent,” Bishop Schneider said, in an exclusive statement to LifeSiteNews, that homosexual networks exist in the Church and that at the root of the abuse crisis lies “homosexual vice.”